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De@ 19, 1939. M. L. NELSON ET AL 2,183,820

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RECORDING SYSTEM Filed Nov. 16, 1935 19 SheetS-Sheel'l 4 v F |G.3 TAPE PERFORATOR INVENTORS MARTIN L. NELSON LEITH JOHNSTON A TTORNEY.-

Dec. 19, 1939'. I M. l.. NELSON Er AL RECORDING SYSTEM Filed Nov. 16, 1935 19 Sheets-She-.e'c 6 INVENTORS MARTIN l.. NELSON LEITH JOHNSTON A TTORNE Y.

Dec. 19, 1939. M, L, NELSON ET AL 2,183,820

RECORDING SYSTEM Filed Nov. 16, 19:55 19 sheets-sheet 7 INVENTORSI MARTRN L, NELSON BY gglTH JOHNSTON ATTORNEY.

Dec 19 1939- M. NELSON Er AL 2,183,820

RECORDING SYSTEM Filed Nov. 16, 1935 19 Sheets-Sheet 9 FIGJS TAPE FIG.

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Dec. 19, 1939. LL NELSON -r AL 2,183,820

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IN1/'EN TORS MARTIN l.` NELSON L EITH JOHNSTON A TTORNI'Y A Patented Dec. 19, 1939 v l UNITED STATES PATE-NT OFFICE RECORDING SYSTEM Martin L. Nelson, Park Ridge, lll., and Leith Johnston, Providence, R. I., assignors to Assoelated Electric Laboratories, Inc., Chicago, lll a corporation oi' Delaware Application November 16, 1935, Serial No. 50,140

V22 Claims. (Cl. 164-113) This invention relates in general to recording in the tape translator-and-card-punch of this insystems, but more particularly to a recording sysvention existing only at headquarters; (3) A furtem formaking two records of the same data, ther safeguard against fraud is obtained by havone of which is typed on a sheet and the other ing an added record, the punched tape, as a 5 is punched in a record card which may be used check against fraudulent change in the typewritto control tabulating machinery. ten record or the nal punched-card report, the

In the system disclosed in the present invenpunched tape being locked away in a safe by tion. bookkeeping typewriters type data entries the head of the business. f on' sheets and associated tape perforators perfo- One of the features relates to the provision of rate corresponding data in tapes which control skip springs on the bookkeeping machine which -10 a tape translator to operate a card punch to are closed in response to the operation of either punch record cards in accordance with such data. the palm skip tabulator or any decimal tabulator In this system each typewriter is individually key to cause a skip perforation to be punched in connected to a tape perforator and a tape transthe tape. l

lator is individually connected to a card punch. Another feature relates to the means whereby .-15 This arrangement enables a single card punch a vcredit perforation is automatically punched to take care of all the tapes perforated by a in the tape after a credit entry only in case both number of the combined typewriters and tape the control bar springs and the credit shift key perforators and is therefore more economicalof the bookkeeping machine are operated.

than a system wherein the typewriter is directly Another feature relates to the means for in- 20s connected to a card punch. dicating to the operator when the bookkeeping The main object of the invention is to promachine and the tape perforator are jointly opvide an economical system of the above type for erable. Y

producing a typed record and a corresponding A further feature relates to the means for punched record by'tape and by card. locking the numeral keys of the bookkeeping ma- Another object f the invention is the provision chine against operation in case the tape in the 25 of an improved tape perforator and improved cirtape perforator breaks or is exhausted. cuit arrangements in the bookkeeping typewriter Another feature of the invention relates to av machine for"`electrically and automatically conlock-pulse arrangement whereby only a single trolling the tape perforator to punch a tape in punching operation is performed by the tape per- 30 code in accordance with the typed data. forator regardless of the length of time the ini- A further object of the invention is the protial actuating pulse is maintained. vision of an improved electrical control for a Another feature relates to a tape having feed universal card punch which may be automat'iholes and a six-hole code with three code perfocally controlled from a tape translator or manurating spaces on each side of the feed hole; said 3;, ally controlled from its keyboard, in either case tape having coded perforations so alined'and to punch a 45 or a 90 column card, or a, combipositioned with respect to the feed `holes that if nation 45 and 90 column card. the tape is incorrectly inserted inA a `-tape trans- 'I'his type of system provides the following adlator such translator would be' inoperative. 40 vantages: (l) That the punched tape may be Another feature relative to improved circuit 40 allowed to accumulate for any desired period arrangements in the universal punch for autoof time and then mailed to headquarters, which matically operating the punch carriage" to its need be the only place where a tape-translatorintermediate stop position in case a skip code is and-card-punch combination exists; (2) The transmitted to the punch at a time when the punched tape could obviously be sent by any carriage is resting in its 46th position. 45 well-known transmitter to a reperforator, as the Another feature relates to the circuits conwell-known Hoover 1,851,838, by a short or long trolled by the transfer relay for converting a. telegraph circuit of well-known kind, so that the tape-controlled punch from 45 to 90 column tape punched at the substation could be teleworking or vice versa. graphically reproduced at headquarters for use A further feature relates to the means for mak- #50. 

